From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1QQ1aS-00063Y-V1 for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 27 May 2011 18:16:41 +0000 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) References: <20110526170722.GB23266@in.ibm.com> <20110526172618.GB18295@in.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:16:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20110526172618.GB18295@in.ibm.com> (K. Prasad's message of "Thu, 26 May 2011 22:56:18 +0530") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 6/6] Crash: Recognise slim coredumps and process new elf-note sections List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: "Luck, Tony" , Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar , kexec@lists.infradead.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Wang Chao , Andi Kleen , anderson@redhat.com, Michael Holzheu , Vivek Goyal , crash-utility@redhat.com "K.Prasad" writes: > Crash: Recognise slim coredumps and process new elf-note sections > > The Linux kernel will begin to support SlimDump for certain types of crashes > and the 'crash' tool needs to recognise them. For these types of coredumps, it > need not lookout for usual elf-structures and start gdb. Also process new > elf-note sections that contain additional information about the crash. I suppose patching crash make sense. Unfortunately crash doesn't work on 99% of the kernels I run so, so I stopped caring a while ago. Eric _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec